Amy Nickell

Freelance fashion, celebrity and lifestyle journalist

United Kingdom

I write entertaining, informative articles about everything from the Great British Bake Off to this winter’s must-have shearling coat. Clients include Yahoo UK, Metro UK and The Radio Times.

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Yahoo Style UK
Grace Neutral: Meet The Girl Redefining The Face Of Beauty

'Want to see where my belly button used to be?' is not a question I expected to be asked today. However, here I am in an underground bar in Shoreditch sitting opposite Grace Neutral, the body modified Instagram star who has just designed her debut capsule collection for Motel Rocks.

RadioTimes
09/25/2015
Remember when we used to fancy... Robson & Jerome

Robson and Jerome. It was a love affair of double portions, a couplet of housewife-vouched sex appeal. For a brief candle in the 90s, Mother's Day was covered - Robson and Jerome had your back. It all started when Robson Green and Jerome Flynn's characters in Soldier Soldier sang Unchained Melody.

RadioTimes
09/09/2015
Remember when we used to fancy... Beppe di Marco

It was the cusp of Y2K and all British women wanted to do was avoid the Millennium bug, slip on an asymmetric top and risk goatee rash... Yes, for the best part of the late nineties and early noughties there was a strange public infatuation.

Yahoo Lifestyle UK
02/28/2014
Love in the movies vs. love in real life: seven dating situations that only happen in films

Films are set to be big news next week thanks to that little award ceremony going on. And what happens a lot in films? Love: lots of big ol' cuddly love. But after watching lots of films and living 24 years of real life I have come to notice a slight discrepancy between the big screen and actual real living that I would like to share...

Yahoo Lifestyle UK
07/24/2015
Baby Blog: 10 Things Single Parents NEVER Say

1. Gosh, I feel so fresh and radiant today Exactly when will I be able to redeem my months of lost sleep? [Giphy] 2. Let's talk about contraception and whether I used any! Please don't make me a part of your hypothetical moral dilemma even if you are drunk. 3.

Yahoo Lifestyle UK
01/02/2015
Baby Blog: It's New Year's Eve And I Wish I Was Out. There, I Said It.

There is a particular parenting website which seems to love nothing more than running numbered features with headlines such as, '22 things you won't do now you have kids', '8 things only 20-something childless singletons can do' and '32 ways your life will never be the same after a baby'.

RadioTimes
09/10/2015
Confessions of a first dater

It's a truth universally acknowledged that first dates unhinge even the most together of people. So hideous are they that Channel 4 crafted a whole series of programmes dedicated to the subject for us to enjoy. Tonight we will belly laugh at the telly secure in our 'staying in' costumes, which coincidentally are the exact opposite to the 'first date' costume.

RadioTimes
09/10/2015
Celebrity Big Brother's most controversial moments

Pete Burns and the gorilla coat (Series 4) Things went very 'Cecil The Lion' back in Series 4 when Pete Burns decided that dressing gowns were out, and endangered species were in. Pete's fashion choices were called into question and soon even PETA were informed of his Planet of the Apes-inspired outerwear.